Visions of Jazz: The First CenturyOxford University Press, 1998 M10 22 - 704 páginas Poised to become a classic of jazz literature, Visions of Jazz: The First Century offers seventy-nine chapters illuminating the lives of virtually all the major figures in jazz history. From Louis Armstrong's renegade-style trumpet playing to Sarah Vaughan's operatic crooning, and from the swinging elegance of Duke Ellington to the pioneering experiments of Ornette Coleman, jazz critic Gary Giddins continually astonishes the reader with his unparalleled insight. Writing with the grace and wit that have endeared his prose to Village Voice readers for decades, Giddins also widens the scope of jazz to include such crucial American musicians as Irving Berlin, Rosemary Clooney, and Frank Sinatra, all primarily pop performers who are often dismissed by fans and critics as mere derivatives of the true jazz idiom. And he devotes an entire quarter of this landmark volume to young, still-active jazz artists, boldly expanding the horizons of jazz--and charting and exploring the music's influences as no other book has done. |
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... tour of Europe in 1925. When Ethel Waters outpriced herself in the starring role , Spencer suggested a chorus girl he admired in Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle's Shuffle Along , Josephine Baker . He would remain in Europe for the next ...
... tour of Europe in 1925. When Ethel Waters outpriced herself in the starring role , Spencer suggested a chorus girl he admired in Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle's Shuffle Along , Josephine Baker . He would remain in Europe for the next ...
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... tour in the summer of 1938 , he wired Williams , who met him at Victoria Station before his appearance at the Palladium . Spencer found him a flat , where they spent a day writing a song called " A Cottage in 50 Precursors.
... tour in the summer of 1938 , he wired Williams , who met him at Victoria Station before his appearance at the Palladium . Spencer found him a flat , where they spent a day writing a song called " A Cottage in 50 Precursors.
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... touring the southern black vaudeville circuit as Sweet Mama Stringbean and when she was given the chance to record . By 1920 , when Mamie Smith became the first black woman singer to record , blues singers had long been tempering their ...
... touring the southern black vaudeville circuit as Sweet Mama Stringbean and when she was given the chance to record . By 1920 , when Mamie Smith became the first black woman singer to record , blues singers had long been tempering their ...
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... tour of the South , where they became the first blacks heard on Southern radio . Following the tour , she was advised to make it on " white time , " while Henderson abandoned chemistry to start a regular band ( which debuted at the Nora ...
... tour of the South , where they became the first blacks heard on Southern radio . Following the tour , she was advised to make it on " white time , " while Henderson abandoned chemistry to start a regular band ( which debuted at the Nora ...
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... touring with Billy Graham ; her second volume of autobiography , published in 1973 , is called To Me It's Wonderful . Yet the records are still there , as are the movies , though infrequently shown , and the first book continues to be ...
... touring with Billy Graham ; her second volume of autobiography , published in 1973 , is called To Me It's Wonderful . Yet the records are still there , as are the movies , though infrequently shown , and the first book continues to be ...
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A POPULAR MUSIC | 151 |
A MODERN MUSIC | 231 |
A MAINSTREAM MUSIC | 337 |
AN ALTERNATIVE MUSIC | 437 |
A STRUGGLING MUSIC | 527 |
A TRADITIONAL MUSIC | 585 |
Acknowledgments | 655 |
Index of Names | 657 |
Index of Songs and Selected Albums | 671 |
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